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mkmk2 commented on Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest reuters.com/markets/europ... · Posted by u/andreygrehov

short_sells_poo · 4 years ago

This whataboutism has to stop. One bad thing doesn't excuse another. Would you suggest that it's OK to use nuclear weapons because the US used two of them in WW2? I hope not.

The invasion of Iraq was based on lies and this is terrible. The invasion of Ukraine is based on lies and it is also terrible.

mkmk2 · 4 years ago

Didn't read it as whataboutism. Was more a call to consider the "ridiculous stream of fantasy being spewed out of <country> leader and media" is rhetoric which is almost always applicable somewhere. The spewing's given some credit elsewhere, just not here because they've been pretty cleanly labelled as the enemy. Also maybe because it's batshit, but the people who are unsure of that will have a harder time having a discussion about it because so many people are jumping to emotional or canned responses.

mkmk2 commented on Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux simulavr.com/... · Posted by u/sandebert

symmetricsaurus · 4 years ago

For a work VR headset to work I think you need a couple of things.

One is that it needs to be comfortable enough to wear for long periods of time. I usually get quite warm when wearing one. You also often end up with impressions on your face. This is fine for gaming or shorter sessions but would be a distraction if trying to focus for longer periods of time.

It would also need to have a higher resolution than most (all?) current VR headsets. Text needs to be huge so even though you can have lots of virtual screens you can't fit much on each.

Finally, I imagine that there could be a more innovative interface than just screens in a virtual space. Something that embraces the close-to-physical-reality illusion of VR.

mkmk2 · 4 years ago

The issues you're presenting seem real for some, but enthusiasts seem to be making it work[1: post from yesterday].

I like the call in your last point, but personally I think an innovation like 360 degree resizable and movable windows is a reasonable step up from where we're currently at. It would be nice to integrate the work we do into physical space a bit more though. I've wondered about doing practical programming work in an infinifactory-type[2] interface. I don't think it's necessarily a good idea, but it'd be fun to see attempts at no-code tooling embedded in the space.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678041 [2] https://www.zachtronics.com/infinifactory/

mkmk2 commented on Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/harambae

lumost · 5 years ago

This has a lot of parallels to "opt-out" syndrome in Japan. Given the concurrent rise of VanLife and FIRE cultural phenomena it's worth considering why many individuals in developed economies ideal life is to not work.

I'd hypothesize that the rising costs both economic, and mental associated with what many consider a basic standard of living independently probably has alot to do with it.

Why work when 60 hours per week leaves you just barely scraping by and exhausted? Why not be just barely scraping by and not exhausted.

mkmk2 · 5 years ago

What are the FIRE cultural phenomena?

mkmk2 commented on Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/harambae

at_a_remove · 5 years ago

Well, I cannot speak for Tinder, but you have probably seen the stats from the now-deleted OKCupid blogs. I worked in a dating service pre-Intarwebs and the dynamics are almost exactly the same, just lacking only the "instant" factor of the Internet, plus the rather expanded pool. As someone who entered people's "preferences" versus their "must-haves," certain trends emerged. To be politic about it, those trends did not favor men.

mkmk2 · 5 years ago

As someone who's been exposed to the stats more than most of us (I assume, pre-web dating service), do you have any particular insights? Have you thought about what one could do to address this mismatch since? I was fortunate to find my s.o. on a language exchange site, but if I felt my best options were something from the Match Group... it looks grim

mkmk2 commented on Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/harambae

pm90 · 5 years ago

> I'm a big believer that people only care to preserve societies they have a stake in and if a large enough percentage of the population own nothing and offer no value it's very easy to see this causing a division

Wouldn't someone that is able to spend most of their time playing video games (instead of e.g. farming) want society to continue as it exists today? Without that society, wouldn't they be forced to fight/work for sustenance?

mkmk2 · 5 years ago

I was a whole lot more spiteful when I was playing video games 24/7 and felt like there was nowhere else to go. I would've been far happier seeing an end to everything then, when everything seemed impossible, versus now that I have some experience, some skin in the game.

mkmk2 commented on Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration github.com/jukefoxer/Sign... · Posted by u/lsblk

raghav_nautiyal · 5 years ago

Is it possible for signal to act like a chat client, and allow its users to send messages via Signal to someone using WhatsApp? Not sure what protocol WhatsApp and Signal use to send messages - was just wondering since most Email clients do this using SMTP.

mkmk2 · 5 years ago

I wouldn't expect a project like that to go too far, I know of a couple of oss whatsapp clients that got took down, I'd assume when such a component comes online facebook would start causing trouble for them. Matrix uses bots which bridges services with services like signal, that seems to be the easiest way to achieve inter-operability, though idk how usable it is in practice.

mkmk2 commented on Poll: Switching from WhatsApp · Posted by u/ColinWright

londons_explore · 5 years ago

It's about time someone made a unified messenger client that combines all these conversations and hides the detail of which service you are using to talk to friends.

mkmk2 · 5 years ago

Is there a reason why there isn't a client that can work with matrix/signal/telegram/any service with open source clients available? Are there any existing OSS projects which have made any progress in this domain?

People are right, it doesn't solve the issue with Whatsapp, but it would mitigate some of the barrier caused by the network effect. I'm also sceptical of walled gardens, something usable in this domain would make this less of a problem when some drama rises over Telesignix, switching clients is a lot less of an ask than switching everything.

mkmk2 commented on Poll: Switching from WhatsApp · Posted by u/ColinWright

nindalf · 5 years ago

> The question is "To which app are you going to switch?"

And a reasonable answer is "your assumption is wrong, I don't plan to switch at all". I have no doubt that some people will switch, what I'd like to know if that movement is niche or mainstream.

mkmk2 · 5 years ago

And an answer to that is maybe youre not the intended target of this poll. If the op is looking for alternatives, that's not a very useful option